Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Jun 15, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324014",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-06-15T20:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-06-17T11:36:00",
    "closed": "2026-06-17T12:24:44",
    "modified": "2026-08-04T11:24:54",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Westmoreland County Conveyance - Coles Point Road near Bronson Cove Road",
    "address": "2585 Coles Point Road",
    "city": "Hague",
    "zip": "22469",
    "county_city": "Westmoreland County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Lower Machodoc Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Lower Machodoc Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 0,
    "high": 4600,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Coles Point Wastewater Treatment System",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "The estimated Volume of Discharge that we posted on the Overflow Report was estimated using the rate of withdrawal at the pump and haul truck.  The truck had a 2,000 gallon tank on it.  The truck hauled three 1,800 gallon tank loads while the repairs were being made.  This established a rate of discharge from the leak.  We applied that rate to the reported estimate for the time the leak occurred.  The 3 x 1,800 = 5,400 gallons is not actually included as part of the estimated Volume of Discharge but was applied as a rate of overflow.\n\nFactors that minimized volume of Discharge: \n\nLeaked sewage only pathway to leave the manhole was through the lifting pick holes in the manhole cast iron lid.  This would have slowed the discharge rate.\n\nThere is a relatively deep ravine that parallels Coles Point Road near the end of Bronson Cove.  The ravine would have \"caught\" and percolated a portion of the flow and would have slowed the flow getting to Bronson Cove.\n\nWe believe all of these factors combined would result in little or no overflow reaching Bronson Cove and the Lower Machodoc Creek.  However, we reported the estimated potential based on the rate of discharge being pumped and hauled.",
    "location_comment": "Sewer leak along Coles Point Road near Bronson Cove.\nAddress used is 911 address for permitted facility.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 19,
      "component": "Pipe",
      "component_id": 10,
      "volume_gal": 10000,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Repaired pipe and replaced air release valve.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "air release valve",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-06-17T12:13:04",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-17T12:24:31",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-17T12:24:31",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-17T12:24:36",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-17T12:24:44",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-06-17T12:13:04",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 19 h (sewage report)",
  "_time_basis": "PReP API times are local wall-clock times with no zone, read as America/New_York. The export table stores local time + 5 h all year (decoded by subtracting 5 h); the EDMA point layer stores local time labelled as UTC (decoded by reading the UTC clock as local).",
  "water_placement": {
    "text": "Lower Machodoc Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Hague",
      "Westmoreland County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.141487,
    "lon": -76.629931,
    "layer": "DEQ EDMA layer 175 (PReP Reports, Daily)",
    "reference_point": "PG",
    "note": "DEQ's geocode of the report's site address (REFERENCE_POINT 'PG'), not an outfall point",
    "edma_incident": "2026-06-15T20:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-06-17T11:36:00-04:00"
  },
  "attribution": "DEQ is the data source. DEQ does not certify that this data represents a complete record. This data is provided to the citizens of the Commonwealth free of charge and for informational purposes only.",
  "api_url": "https://portal.deq.virginia.gov/prep/api/prepReports/324014?expand=prepStatusCode,prepUnitTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepComponentTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageCauses.prepCauseCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageImpacts.prepImpactTypeCode,prepReportReleaseSubtypes.prepReleaseSubtypeCode,prepReportPermitViews,prepOriginalReport,prepReportEvents.prepEventTypeCode,prepFipsCode.fipsRegion"
}

Source: Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP), Piedmont Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 324014, reported Jun 17, 2026, 11:36 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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